"My uncle also knew that he was very dull in reading. It is estimated that there is no hope for the imperial examination.

I heard that there is a shortage of manpower here in Haifan Division, and you are now also a six-grade outsider, so can you arrange an errand for my husband. ”

Zheng Gaoyuan didn't speak, but his wife spoke directly. And there is no outside at all, what is there to say.

Yu Tai likes to go straight like this. He glanced at Zheng Gaoyuan.

"What do you think?" He always asks what the Lord thinks.

"Uncle, I listen to Chanjuan, I don't have any skills, so naturally I don't have any opinions. It's good to be able to get a job to support your family. Over the years, I have been reading with my hands in my hands, and I don't want to go. ”

Zheng Gaoyuan lowered his eyebrows and said smoothly. However, his eyes were erratic where Yu Tai could not see.

"You came just in time, I am now in charge of the ship management of the entire Liujia Port, and there is just a lack of an entourage to manage it, and others have one or two taels of silver per month, and I can set one or two halves for you.

But the ugly words are ahead, if you don't do a good job, or if you make a mistake, I'll let you go at any time. ”

Yu Tai said.

As soon as he heard that Yueyin had one or two halves, Zheng Gaoyuan hurriedly nodded. In this year, the county order of the Ming Dynasty was forty-five taels a year. And it's not for silver, most of it is folded into rice money, and the money is a treasure banknote that pits people.

Of course, the income of the county order is not only paid by the imperial court.

He gave eighteen taels a year as a scholar, which is already very high.

"Uncle, it can't be a treasure banknote, right?" Yu Tai's niece Yu Chanjuan asked.

"Don't worry about this, you haven't even issued copper coins, it's all real money." Yu Taixin said that this small prince didn't have much else, just a lot of silver.

At the end of March and the beginning of April, Xu Qin paid a one-time tariff to the household department of the imperial court for the first quarter, which amounted to 300,000 taels of silver.

And the real real money, there is no deduction and physical goods at all. This is not counting the gifts given to Zhu Di by the true and false envoys of various countries.

In addition to exotic animals and plants, all kinds of treasures and playthings, it is equivalent to 150,000 taels of silver. Zhu Di deliberately built an independent warehouse to store these things.

Calling himself Fanku.

What Yu Tai didn't know was that the silver ore and blister copper that Xu Qin brought back from the Wa Kingdom were smelted and purified to obtain 700,000 taels of silver and 30,000 catties of copper ingots.

Because of the profits obtained from glass products, he and Zhu Di opened sixteen. Xu Qin asked for copper, but it was useless and directly converted into silver.

The Duke of Wei earned nearly 400,000 taels of silver at once.

With the resurgence of the first overseas trade, the merchants who participated in the market made a lot of money, and although the tax back and forth was very high, they earned even more.

So now the Enshi field outside Nanjing City is in full swing, and a large number of goods are loaded here, ready to go to sea for the second time.

The more goods you go to sea, the more taxes you will collect.

The silver was transported to the household department by ship, and the officials were not used in kind, but now all silver was used. Xia Yuanji felt that he was talking louder now.

Especially when boatloads of sea freight and silver were transported into the palace, he always blamed himself, feeling that he was a good scholar in the household department.

With the smooth operation of the entire Enshi Field and the Haifan Division, Xia Yuanji gradually saw the huge wealth in it.

Nowadays, many people want to stuff their children and relatives into the Enshi Camp or the Haifan Division.

But the embarrassing thing is that Enshi Yanchang is His Majesty's territory, Xu Qin is in charge, and Haifan Division is Xu Qin's territory, and the people who scolded Xu Qin at the beginning now want to ignore the past suspicions.

But Xu Qin is not the kind of person who smiles and grudges when he meets, he is the virtue of pulling out a knife when he meets.

At the beginning, the setting up of this benevolent field was for fear of opposition from others, and Zhu Di and the cabinet opened it under pressure.

Therefore, it is called Enshichang, and the tribute of foreign envoys is given to the emperor, and the tax is now given to the household department. The whole court is the beneficiary, and now they are all staring at it as fat, and no one mentions any sea ban.

Of the gifts Zhu Di received, only a small part of them were left that were pleasing to the eye, and most of them were sold by Xu Qin before they left Haifan Division.

In exchange for real money, this part is no less than what the household receives. What's more, there is also Xu Qin's glass division, and his waist bag is gradually full.

Zhu Di sat with the cabinet, studying the impact of the Enshi Field on the Ming Dynasty. Yang Shiqi proved to be far-sighted.

Now because the entire Ming Dynasty has opened up overseas markets, the planting area of sericulture has increased greatly, and a large amount of wasteland has been reclaimed to grow mulberry and raise silkworms.

A large number of textile workshops have been established in the Gangnam region, and a woman earns no less than an adult man.

A large number of porcelain was exported, and porcelain kilns began to appear on a large scale, and even porcelain firing masters were hard to find.

Merchants were more sensitive than anyone else, and when they found that the exit was opened, they immediately began to stock up on mulberry fields, kilns, and even craftsmen in advance.

"This is just the beginning, and after a few decades, there will inevitably be fewer people to grow food, businessmen will become more and more profitable, and many people will stop farming. In the long run, order in the world will inevitably collapse. ”

Xu Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said worriedly.

The imperial court has always been agriculture-oriented, and Li Zhigang's words were foreseeable.

"I only saw one of them, not the second. You have seen sericulture grabbing land, and you have seen more merchants and fewer farmers. But I didn't see that the people of Daming had some other livelihoods besides farming.

I didn't see that these overseas customs were all used by my Ming Dynasty. And nowhere near that. Even if you arrive, you don't have to be afraid, you just need to control the exit. ”

Yang Shiqi said lightly, he was not worried at all. In the event of such a situation, it is only necessary to limit the types of goods to be exported.

"Population and land." Zhu Di sighed.

Xu Qin once mentioned to him that the Ming Dynasty is not overpopulated now, after the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, although it has recovered for decades, it is still a small number of people.

"The overseas demand for Daming goods is endless, and we can adjust the internal production structure of Daming through exports. That's what Xu Qin said.

Now we can see the export of silk and porcelain, and the impact on the interior of the Ming Dynasty. If we export more sophisticated iron tools, will it increase the mining of domestic iron ore and the increase of blacksmiths? ”

Yang Shiqi said.

"Well, when it comes to Tie Zhen, I remember that the War Bureau and the Ministry of Industry originally cast firearms with Xu Qin and renovated the steelmaking furnace, and now the amount of steelmaking per month is four times that of before. The iron ore can't keep up. ”

Zhu Di remembered the mountains of steel ingots he saw in the Ministry of Industry, and the expressions of those masters who said that they lacked iron with sad faces.

With good steel, there will be good weapons. The 50,000 taels of trial and error fund set up by Xu Qin allowed those craftsmen to make many strange things.

Some work, some don't. But Zhu Di still gives money regularly. Make ten things, and one will be useful.

"Then increase the export of iron tools, so that the private merchants feel that there is money to make money, and they will naturally find a way to make iron. The imperial court only had to collect taxes and buy iron from them. ”

Yang Shiqi said.

Several old men were finalizing the export national policy for the coming year, and Zhu Zhanji was quietly studying beside him. He felt as if there was a shadow of his cousin everywhere, and he didn't know how he was doing now.

I met Zhang Xun a few days ago, and this guy was going to find Xu Qin. I heard that his brother asked him for a thousand households, and he was going to fight against the Japanese under Xu Qin.

It's a pity that I wasn't there when my cousin killed the 3,000 Japanese robbers, and I would have set fire to them. Zhu Zhanji thought.

He was thinking about it blindly, and the General Administration Department sent Xu Qin's recital. Zhu Di opened it and looked at it for a while.

"The cabinet stays, and the others go first." Zhu Di said.

The six Shangshu hurriedly left, and the people led by Yang Shiqi in the cabinet stayed. Zhu Di handed the fold to Yang Shiqi to see.

Yang Shiqi knew at a glance that Xu Qin was going to do something again.

This letter was Xu Qin's request that the armor and weapons that had been eliminated by the Ming Dynasty be sold to the Japanese envoys of the Japanese Wa Kingdom, who were representatives of the southern daimyo of the Wa Kingdom.

This is another sensitive matter, but the cabinet and Zhu Di are used to it. If Xu Qin doesn't do something, others don't dare to do it, he won't be Xu Qin.

Those obsolete old armor and weapons are all good things when they arrive in the Wa Kingdom.

Don't look at the knives of the Wa Kingdom are very sharp, but there are not many armor and weapons equipped on a large scale. After all, the national strength is lacking, not to mention that it has not yet reached the so-called Warring States era of the Japanese State.

The people who can be mobilized in the civil war between the North and the South are 20,000 or 30,000 people. It's all made up by more than a dozen daimyos.

The territory is already small, and it is divided into dozens of territories, and the national strength can be imagined.

In the war in the Wa Kingdom, the samurai were armed with fine swords, and those with armor were considered rich. The commander can wear well-dressed armor, but it's hard to say what the average soldier is holding.

Generally ashigaru small soldiers, basically bamboo guns.

If even ordinary minions were to put on armor and take iron weapons, the combat effectiveness would not only be doubled.